Enhanced cancer detection through probe modification

    公开(公告)号:US10292631B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-21

    申请号:US14957840

    申请日:2015-12-03

    摘要: Body-mountable devices are provided to detect the presence or status of a tumor in a body by detecting one or more properties of a probe located in subsurface vasculature of the body. A wearable body-mountable device can be worn for a protracted period of time to detect a probe in the vasculature at low concentrations and/or at low rates. A body-mountable device can detect properties of the probe that are indicative of whether the probe has interacted with a tumor of the body and determine the presence or status of a tumor in the body based on such detected properties. Additionally or alternatively, the probe could be introduced into the body as a probe aggregate and released from if the probe aggregate is absorbed by a tumor. The presence of released probes could be detected to determine a presence or status of a tumor in the body.

    Systems and methods for real-time laser doppler imaging

    公开(公告)号:US10945620B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-16

    申请号:US16375504

    申请日:2019-04-04

    发明人: Andrew Homyk

    IPC分类号: A61B5/026 A61B5/00

    摘要: Disclosed methods and systems may be operable to obtain non-contact diagnostic information about movements of scattering objects such as fluids in subsurface vasculature in tissue. As an example, a method may include causing a light source to illuminate the tissue with at least a first portion of the emitted light and illuminate an optical modulator with at least a second portion of the emitted light. The second portion of the emitted light may be modulated by the optical modulator. An offset source is configured to provide an offset frequency signal. An image sensor may receive optical information from the sample. A heterodyne signal based on the reference frequency signal and the offset frequency signal may be used as a gain input of each detector element of the image sensor. Based on the received information, a movement of a portion of the sample may be determined.

    Correlated hemodynamic measurements

    公开(公告)号:US10194808B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-05

    申请号:US14583861

    申请日:2014-12-29

    摘要: Wearable devices are described herein including at least two sensors configured to detect hemodynamic properties of a wearer. A first sensor is configured to detect a hemodynamic property of a portion of vasculature, where the operation of the first sensor is based on a hemodynamic property detected by a second sensor. A timing of operation, a value of one or more controlled operational parameters, a filter setting, or some other aspect of the operation of the first sensor could be controlled based on the hemodynamic property detected by the second sensor. Hemodynamic properties could include blood flow rate, volume, and/or pressure in one or more portions of vasculature, a timing, rate, delay, or other information about heartbeats, an oxygenation level of blood, a velocity of blood cells in blood, or some other information about a wearer's blood, heart, and/or cardiovascular system.

    APPLICATIONS OF VASCULATURE MAPPING USING LASER SPECKLE IMAGING

    公开(公告)号:US20180064352A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-08

    申请号:US15808555

    申请日:2017-11-09

    IPC分类号: A61B5/026 A61B5/00 A61B5/1455

    摘要: Systems are provided for detecting the flow of blood or other fluids in biological tissue by illuminating the biological tissue with a coherent light source and detecting time-varying patterns of constructive and destructive interference in light received from portions of the biological tissue by an imager. The movement of blood cells and other light-scattering elements in the biological tissue causes transient, short-duration changes in light emitted from portions of the biological tissue proximate to the moving blood cells or other scatterers. High-frequency sampling or other high-bandwidth processing of light intensities detected by an imager could be used to determine the flow of blood or other fluids at a plurality of points in the biological tissue, to detect and/or localize a tumor in the biological tissue, to determine the location, pattern, width, or other properties of vasculature in the biological tissue, or to provide information for some other application(s).

    Applications of vasculature mapping using laser speckle imaging

    公开(公告)号:US09839365B1

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-12

    申请号:US14551480

    申请日:2014-11-24

    IPC分类号: A61B5/1455 A61B5/026 A61B5/00

    摘要: Systems are provided for detecting the flow of blood or other fluids in biological tissue by illuminating the biological tissue with a coherent light source and detecting time-varying patterns of constructive and destructive interference in light received from portions of the biological tissue by an imager. The movement of blood cells and other light-scattering elements in the biological tissue causes transient, short-duration changes in light emitted from portions of the biological tissue proximate to the moving blood cells or other scatterers. High-frequency sampling or other high-bandwidth processing of light intensities detected by an imager could be used to determine the flow of blood or other fluids at a plurality of points in the biological tissue, to detect and/or localize a tumor in the biological tissue, to determine the location, pattern, width, or other properties of vasculature in the biological tissue, or to provide information for some other application(s).